IOC assures regular LPG supply from Monday

Kathmandu February 29- Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has assured regular supply of cooking gas from Monday as per Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). IOC has reduced the supply for the past week, citing technical problem at its Barauni-based depot but said the problem has been fixed and that regular supply will resume from Monday.

IOC’s Barauni depot supplies almost half (49 percent) of the country’s demand for cooking gas. Of the total demand of 29,000 tonnes per month, the depot supplies 13,000 tonnes. IOC’s Haldiya depot supplies 11,000 tonnes, while the rest 5,000 tonnes are supplied by Mathura depot.
 

After India lifted the trade embargo in the first week of February, the supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) had improved. But the supply again dropped to 20 bullets a day (12 bullets from Haldiya and eight from Mathura) after technical problem emerged at the Barauni depot a week ago.